Forests play a crucial role in promoting health and well-being, but not all forests provide the same benefits. A large-scale international study, co-led by the University of Surrey and the University ...

John Parker, SERC senior scientist and co-lead scientist of the Functional Forests Project, plants a sapling in the new restoration experiment. To grow a successful forest, planting trees is not ...

Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by laser-scanning technologies. Doing the same with forest data has proven far more ...

A new study shows that forest heat signals seen by thermal infrared sensors depend strongly on three-dimensional canopy structure, not just leaf or soil properties. Using a detailed 3-dimensional (3D) ...

Bamboo invasion has been widely observed across Asia (e.g., China, Japan, and India), North America, South America (e.g., Brazil and Peru) and Africa. Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis), a ...

In the past three decades, poaching has decimated Africa’s now-critically endangered forest elephants, and as a result, their vital role as seed dispersers of many forest plants has been disrupted. A ...

In northwestern Poland, a small stand of pine trees curves sharply at the base and then grows straight upward, creating one of the most visually puzzling forests in Europe. This place is known as the ...